Death and the goose shirt
Death and the goose shirt is a parable . It was only in the 1st edition of 1812 in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm in place 27 (KHM 27a) and comes from Georg Philipp Harsdörffer's collection The large show place of miserable murder stories .
content
A goose-farmer meets death at a large water, which comes out of the water and wants to leave the world through the water. The goose-farmer wants to come along, but Death says it is too early and instead pushes a curmudgeon into the water who drowns with his dogs and cats that follow him. Days later, death comes to the merry goose shepherd. The geese become sheep and he becomes a king like Abraham , Isaac and Jacob .
origin
The Brothers Grimm note nothing except for the origin from Harsdörffer's collection from 1663. Hans-Jörg Uther notes that the parable is reproduced literally, perhaps after its 1662 edition, which shows many signs of use by Jacob Grimm. In addition to the Christian conception of the compensatory justice of death, he probably liked the mythological motif of the river of the dead. On the subject of death, cf. at Grimm KHM 44 The Godfather Death , KHM 177 The messengers of death .
parody
In Janosch's parody, death brings many who wanted more in life, and on the way back the goose-shepherd, who needs nothing but the tones of his flute, stays with him.
literature
- Hans-Jörg Uther: Handbook to the children's and house fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-019441-8 , pp. 427-429.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Janosch: Death and the goose-shepherd. In: Janosch tells Grimm's fairy tale. Fifty selected fairy tales, retold for today's children. With drawings by Janosch. 8th edition. Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim and Basel 1983, ISBN 3-407-80213-7 , pp. 243-246.